.jared diamond is a professor of geography at UCLA, but has been and done a great many things. among them has been winning the macarthur "genius prize". most recently he's the author of a book called "collapse" about how civilizations end. he's smarter than you and i put together, and has a son named max, who owns the biggest red-eared slider i've ever seen.    
 
         

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